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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
119 Degrees Awarded
$20,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 119,853 people earned their degree in personal and culinary services, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $17,656 and had an average of $12,064 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 33,956 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $16,302 and $12,060 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 119 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in personal and culinary services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent personal and culinary services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the personal and culinary services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Southeast Region

#1

Nicholls State University

Thibodaux, Louisiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nicholls State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and it awarded 40 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Nicholls State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $12,247 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend Nicholls State University.

Full Nicholls State University Personal & Culinary Services Report

#2

The Art Institute of Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, Virginia
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The Art Institute of Virginia Beach landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

Ai Virginia Beach also took the #3 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $23,561 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students per year to attend The Art Institute of Virginia Beach.

Read full report on Personal & Culinary Services at Ai Virginia Beach

#3

The Art Institute of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Atlanta. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Ai Atlanta also took the #4 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $23,051 for southeast region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students per year to attend Ai Atlanta.

Full Ai Atlanta Personal & Culinary Services Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend AI Miami International University of Art and Design. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. International Fine Arts College is a small school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 11 bachelors’s personal and culinary services degrees in 2019-2020.

International Fine Arts College also took the #5 spot in our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend AI Miami International University of Art and Design is $20,274 for southeast region bachelor’s degree personal & culinary services students.

Full AI Miami International University of Art and Design Personal & Culinary Services Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - North Miami. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Johnson & Wales University - North Miami is a private not-for-profit institution located in North Miami, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

JWU North Miami also made our “Best Personal & Culinary Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for JWU North Miami is $22,909 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Personal & Culinary Services students.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at JWU North Miami

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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